Jacob_Rising
September 5th, 2009, 4:05 pm
I believe everyone is.
I see all the bible as a book of instruction and no matter how you exceed or fail, You can find yourself in the names of the people and all the stories in the bible.
Sometimes I see myself as Peter when he denied Christ when I try and put God away in a dark place in my mind, doing things I know I shouldn't do but I act as If I don't know the truth when I fall back in my flesh. And then the guilt comes to me and I have to admit to God that I actually did know the truth but I had lied to myself like I didn't remember, but God knows I remember. Then he comes to me and picks me back up even though he knows I denied him.
Sometimes I am Both Peter and Satan when the wrong words come from my mouth and I hear the whisper,'' Get thee behind me Satan''
Sometimes I see myself as Peter in my zeal for God and I get puffed up like I would call fire down from heaven or something and once again, I get put back in my place.
Sometimes I see myself as Elijah because I walk by faith and the fire does come falling from heaven and I stand very proud but then when tribulation comes, I run from Jezebel.
At times I give in and say, '' Do what seems right to you Lord'' and I willingly die to myself as Elijah was taken and when I do this, I become Elisha because I have overcome the old me at times.
Sometimes I see myself as Ruth the gentile who was so pleasing to Boaz the Israelite and I feel accepted by the Israelites, and sometimes I see myself as Baalam{2 Peter 2:15} I had forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
Sometimes I see myself as Aaron {Hebrews 5:4} and no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, Just as Aaron was.
In Times past I have been Judas and taken money for an unworthy deed, and I feel like giving the money to the Priests in my guilt but it's too late and it's thrown to the Potters field and I just feel like hanging myself But even then I fail because I can't even do that without being shamed and my guts spilled out on the ground and I'm shown my guilt from the intention I was wrong in. God does have a way of making you see your own sin when he looks at your gut feeling and shows it to you.
To Christians I would say that we are supposed to walk as Christ walked in that we should seek to FULFILL scripture everyday just as Christ went about doing.
To find those righteous acts of the righteous before him did and to know that they are always on the table to fulfill.
To be as Ezekiel and to show the measurements of the temple to people because the measurements and the comings and goings of the temple really will make you ashamed of your sins and show you just where you stand in the temple design.
To be Jeremiah the crying prophet who was oppressed, to be Job and to go that extra mile in giving extra sacrifices just in case.
To be John the Baptist in Going out and finding your true father allthough your biological father didn't believe what was told him about his own son.
To be John the Baptist's father after a year of of silence before God, you suddenly burst out with prophecy and you believe God in the end.
To be John the Baptist Mother and believe what was told you in the first place.
I see Jesus as a Man who saw and knew that this life is about fulfilling the will of the Lord in that he went out and repeated the deeds of all the righteous which culminated alltogether to do one good complete work.
John 4:34 Jesus said to them, '' My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work. '' Do you not say,' There are still four months and then comes the Harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are allready White for Harvest! '' And he who reaps recieves wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. '' For in this saying is true: 'One sows and another reaps.' '' I sent you to reap that which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.''
People have labored but the work is not finished, and so I believe we should become those laborers, and finish what they have started.
When David looked, he said,'' Ahhh, Look, The Volume of the Book is about me'' And Jonathon saw it also and he became the beloved of David because he gave up his entire inheritance and life, giving his ring to David, and his robe and his would be throne.
Likewise, let us become Jonathon and give our lives over to the true King of the universe and deny any inheritance in this world that would have likewise come to us. I think we should deny our own desires and live for God.
Who can you become today, and who were you yesterday?
I think I have just too many days being Absolom, the son of David in my pride with my beautiful covering of hair and my misguided desire to be the King that I would deny my own father, when I should be that Harlot who's sins were always before her face and she cleaned the Feet of Christ with her tears of humbleness.
I believe we really should consider the stories of everyone in the bible and try and see how it relates to our own lives and try to find the contrite and humble and strive to be that person.
Who have you been?
I know that everyone has a story of relating themselves to somebody in the bible, so let's hear one.
I see all the bible as a book of instruction and no matter how you exceed or fail, You can find yourself in the names of the people and all the stories in the bible.
Sometimes I see myself as Peter when he denied Christ when I try and put God away in a dark place in my mind, doing things I know I shouldn't do but I act as If I don't know the truth when I fall back in my flesh. And then the guilt comes to me and I have to admit to God that I actually did know the truth but I had lied to myself like I didn't remember, but God knows I remember. Then he comes to me and picks me back up even though he knows I denied him.
Sometimes I am Both Peter and Satan when the wrong words come from my mouth and I hear the whisper,'' Get thee behind me Satan''
Sometimes I see myself as Peter in my zeal for God and I get puffed up like I would call fire down from heaven or something and once again, I get put back in my place.
Sometimes I see myself as Elijah because I walk by faith and the fire does come falling from heaven and I stand very proud but then when tribulation comes, I run from Jezebel.
At times I give in and say, '' Do what seems right to you Lord'' and I willingly die to myself as Elijah was taken and when I do this, I become Elisha because I have overcome the old me at times.
Sometimes I see myself as Ruth the gentile who was so pleasing to Boaz the Israelite and I feel accepted by the Israelites, and sometimes I see myself as Baalam{2 Peter 2:15} I had forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
Sometimes I see myself as Aaron {Hebrews 5:4} and no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, Just as Aaron was.
In Times past I have been Judas and taken money for an unworthy deed, and I feel like giving the money to the Priests in my guilt but it's too late and it's thrown to the Potters field and I just feel like hanging myself But even then I fail because I can't even do that without being shamed and my guts spilled out on the ground and I'm shown my guilt from the intention I was wrong in. God does have a way of making you see your own sin when he looks at your gut feeling and shows it to you.
To Christians I would say that we are supposed to walk as Christ walked in that we should seek to FULFILL scripture everyday just as Christ went about doing.
To find those righteous acts of the righteous before him did and to know that they are always on the table to fulfill.
To be as Ezekiel and to show the measurements of the temple to people because the measurements and the comings and goings of the temple really will make you ashamed of your sins and show you just where you stand in the temple design.
To be Jeremiah the crying prophet who was oppressed, to be Job and to go that extra mile in giving extra sacrifices just in case.
To be John the Baptist in Going out and finding your true father allthough your biological father didn't believe what was told him about his own son.
To be John the Baptist's father after a year of of silence before God, you suddenly burst out with prophecy and you believe God in the end.
To be John the Baptist Mother and believe what was told you in the first place.
I see Jesus as a Man who saw and knew that this life is about fulfilling the will of the Lord in that he went out and repeated the deeds of all the righteous which culminated alltogether to do one good complete work.
John 4:34 Jesus said to them, '' My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work. '' Do you not say,' There are still four months and then comes the Harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are allready White for Harvest! '' And he who reaps recieves wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. '' For in this saying is true: 'One sows and another reaps.' '' I sent you to reap that which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.''
People have labored but the work is not finished, and so I believe we should become those laborers, and finish what they have started.
When David looked, he said,'' Ahhh, Look, The Volume of the Book is about me'' And Jonathon saw it also and he became the beloved of David because he gave up his entire inheritance and life, giving his ring to David, and his robe and his would be throne.
Likewise, let us become Jonathon and give our lives over to the true King of the universe and deny any inheritance in this world that would have likewise come to us. I think we should deny our own desires and live for God.
Who can you become today, and who were you yesterday?
I think I have just too many days being Absolom, the son of David in my pride with my beautiful covering of hair and my misguided desire to be the King that I would deny my own father, when I should be that Harlot who's sins were always before her face and she cleaned the Feet of Christ with her tears of humbleness.
I believe we really should consider the stories of everyone in the bible and try and see how it relates to our own lives and try to find the contrite and humble and strive to be that person.
Who have you been?
I know that everyone has a story of relating themselves to somebody in the bible, so let's hear one.